[uf-discuss] Re: Actions

Colin Barrett timber at lava.net
Thu Nov 2 02:24:16 PST 2006


How would such a meeting occur? It seems to me like this would only  
happen when an end user cross references hJobs and hResumes.

Plus, the idea of hJobs floating out there searching for hResumes to  
email sounds really, really freaky :D

-Colin

On Nov 2, 2006, at 12:07 AM, Joel Selvadurai wrote:

> Since I opened these can of worms I think I should contribute again at
> this point. I had in mind the idea of microformats interacting with
> each other. So, for exmaple, if a hJob would meet a hResume in the
> ether, then there would be an action associated to each one, like
> email the owner of the Resume that this particular job is a good
> match. That is what I meant by an action. I think the idea of
> microformats interaction with each other is an interesting one.
>
> On 11/1/06, Cayle Graumann <cayle.graumann at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Interesting discussion here.  I was thinking about todo lists and
>> calendar events myself as I'm trying to figure out how to markup
>> project management data using microformats on the web that could be
>> automatically scraped to generate Gantt chart-like output, as well as
>> potentially being pulled into a program on a PDA.
>>
>> On 11/1/06, Rob O'Rourke <rob at sanchothefat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Justin Thorp wrote:
>> > > Why does an action or todo microformat have to be something  
>> that you do on the page?   Maybe I want to pull the ToDo out of the  
>> page and put it on my 30Boxes ToDo list or Outlook or something.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > It doesn't, you're right but I was ignoring the to-do idea when I
>> > replied, I was referring to the actions you can carry out with a
>> > microformatted page like exporting the uF or emailing someone, I  
>> just
>> > misunderstood.
>> >
>> > > You should be able to nest an hCard inside of a ToDo.
>> > >
>> > > I can see this type of microformat being helpful in a situation  
>> where I have information for a rock concert but I have to buy the  
>> tickets for the rock concert.
>> > >
>> > > So while the event information is marked up in an hCalendar  
>> that I can download, there is also a ToDo marked up that tells me  
>> to buy a ticket and where I can buy it.  I could grab this info and  
>> import into my ToDo list.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Would these todo 'actions' be marked up within the event to give  
>> them a
>> > deadline? or a completely separate list that has its own time- 
>> frame (or
>> > none at all) and perhaps uses something like .include to refer to  
>> the
>> > event in question?
>>
>> In my case, I have a series of calendar events that lead up to the
>> completion of one TODO item, but I could see where you might have a
>> list of TODO items that need to be completed at one calendar event
>> also.
>>
>> >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > > Justin Thorp
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>>
>> Cayle
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